After completing a Master’s degree in French and German, New Zealand born Jan Baker-Finch studied Eurythmy in Stuttgart and performed with the Eurythmeum Ensemble for four years. Moving to Brisbane in 1991, Jan taught eurythmy at the Samford Valley Steiner School for 21 years, and performed locally and internationally. For twelve years she taught movement at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, where she began to collaborate with many artists. Jan has performed with Flow eurythmy ensemble, appears regularly at the Piano Mill, and was a guest with the Bloom Collective at the Sokolowsko Ephemeral Art Festival in Poland. In 2019 she collaborated with voice-poet Ryoichi Wago on a series of performances in the post-disaster landscape of Fukushima.
A passionate advocate for the transformative and educative power of movement at all level, Jan has given many workshops to teachers in Asia, India, Australia and Europe encouraging them to work with movement in their classrooms. She has also created a series of video tutorials for classroom teachers featuring simple but challenging movement exercises for the classroom.
Jan currently teaches at Pacifica College of Eurythmy.